From The Study of Aboriginal Art to the Archaeology of Prehistoric Pictures

Clegg, John

doi:10.1080/03122417.1983.12092884

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“…The development of archaeological methods of analysis is a defining signature of Australian rock art studies. When rock art analysis was being developed in the 1970s, researchers such as Maynard (1977) and Clegg (1983) stridently eschewed a search for meaning, considered such a goal as intractable and focused on developing methods for analysing visual form. Officer (1984Officer ( , 1991Officer ( :113, 1994) has subsequently further developed the analysis of the formal properties of rock art.…”

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Drawing in the Land: Rock Art in the Upper Nepean, Sydney Basin, New South Wales

Dibden¹

2019

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This research is an analysis of the rock markings on the Woronora Plateau, west of Wollongong. The land is within the Illawarra Local Aboriginal Land Council (ILALC) area. The ancestors of the local Aboriginal community inscribed their being in this land. I acknowledge my debt and gratitude to the ILALC and, in particular, to the late Mr Jim Davis, for allowing me to undertake this research.The Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) granted me access to the study area (the Metropolitan Special Area). My thanks to Kelvin Lambkin and Tony Kondek for this, and the field staff of the SCA who assisted in my fieldwork safety plans and other matters.I conducted the 20 weeks of fieldwork with the assistance of a large number of people and gratefully acknowledge their help. Students from The Australian National University

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Section: Terra Australis 49mentioning

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Drawing in the Land: Rock Art in the Upper Nepean, Sydney Basin, New South Wales

Dibden¹

2019

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“…Her thesis found that: pictures as artefact-types may be defined with sufficient rigour to carry out the work; that patterns in the distribution of pictures may be discovered without any need to identify the subject of a depiction; … that those patterns may be explained by interpretation in relation to ethnography and geography. (Clegg 1983:88) Research done decades later (Clegg 1983;McDonald 2008;Officer 1984) confirmed the major style boundary she identified at the Georges River (for both rock art media), and that these patterns are complex, with the rock art needing to be contextualised in a broader archaeological record.…”

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The Sydney School and the genesis of contemporary Australian rock art research

McDonald¹

2022

Histories of Australian Rock Art Research

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only developed a full four-field approach in the early 1960s, when the Anthropology and Prehistory Department taught social anthropology, linguistics, prehistory and physical anthropology. Fuelled by a 'Cambridge in the Bush' pathway of training and influence (Murray and White 1981), this influx to the University of Sydney included archaeologists Richard Wright, Rhys Jones and John Clegg, and slightly later Roland Fletcher and J. Peter White -whose journey post-Cambridge included the University of California at Berkeley, where he adopted 'New Archaeology', advocating logical positivism modelled on scientific methods as the guiding research philosophy. Rock art courses were taught in Australian universities after this Cambridge influx, first at the University of Sydney (with John Clegg from 1965) and then at ANU with the arrival of Andrée Rosenfeld in 1973. Isabel McBryde recorded rock art as part of her PhD research, but the University of New England (UNE) only offered a rock art course after Mike Morwood arrived in 1981 (Morwood 2002). Morwood, originally from New Zealand, undertook his PhD at ANU (supervised by John Mulvaney). Iain Davidson joined UNE in 1974, and initially taught religion and portable art, having 'done cave art at Cambridge which was dominated by Leroi-Gourhan with Ucko and Rosenfeld as a counter' (Iain Davidson, pers. comm., April 2021).

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“…Lesley Maynard was the first Australian to write a rock art Honours (and then a Masters) dissertation, thereby providing both an archaeological approach and a chronological stylistic framework within which subsequent generations of rock art researchers practised. These two researchers (Figure 4.1) were responsible for driving one of the most significant paradigm shifts in Australia (Clegg 1971(Clegg , 1977a(Clegg , 1977b(Clegg , 1978a(Clegg , 1978b(Clegg , 1981(Clegg , 1987McMah 1965; Lesley insists on it being recorded here that she was marked 62/100 for this 'first analytical study': (i.e. her thesis) although for their overall degrees, both she and Betty Meehan got 2/As (at that time Second Class, A division was 75-85 per cent).…”

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“…Clegg's two contributions were chapters titled 'The meaning of schematisation' and 'A method of resolving problems that arise from style' (Clegg 1977a(Clegg , 1977b. The first focused on defining and applying schematisation as it had been used in other fields of research (e.g.…”

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Histories of Australian Rock Art Research

Porr

2023

Australian Archaeology

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Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.

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From The Study of Aboriginal Art to the Archaeology of Prehistoric Pictures

Cited by 9 publications

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Drawing in the Land: Rock Art in the Upper Nepean, Sydney Basin, New South Wales

Drawing in the Land: Rock Art in the Upper Nepean, Sydney Basin, New South Wales

The Sydney School and the genesis of contemporary Australian rock art research

Histories of Australian Rock Art Research

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